This section features material relating to the Fathers of modern Yiddish literature - Mendele Moykher Sforim (1835-1917), Isaac Leib Peretz (1851/2-1915) and Sholem Aleichem (1859-1916). In Yiddish they are referred to as 'di Klasiker', whose creativity forged Yiddish into a modern literary language and ushered in the period known as 'the flowering of modern Yiddish literature'.